It is accessible to Region VIII's premiere state university- the University of Eastern Philippines- as well as other private colleges in Catarman, the capital town of Northern Samar.

In the ancient times, this town carries a name Bayog which according to old Bisayan Vocabulario means, a male who acts as a female and dresses like a woman, synonymous to bantot or asog.

𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙙𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙅𝙚𝙨𝙪𝙞𝙩 𝙈𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 The Christianization of the North of Samar Island owes to the mission planted first by the Jesuit missionaries in the village of Tinago in 1596.

Gregorio Lopez, SJ on the Status of the Jesuit Missions from 1612 to 1613, under Residencia de Cabo del Espiritu Santo, the village of Pamboan (sic Pambujan) was listed as having three hundred forty (340) tribute payers.

Examing the archival records of the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu (ARSI) it seemed that the village of Pambujan never continued as a town or as a visita until the Jesuit expulsion in 1768.

The decree was carried only on the 17th of October and finally the Jesuits lefts the island-province on January 10, 1769 aboard the vessel San Francisco de Asis.

At the beginning of his ministry to this town and with his zealous work, he managed to gather and convert several infidels (infieles) who lived on the banks of the river of Pambujan.

In 1784, with the advice of Fray Buenaventura Espinosa, OFM, he managed the people to resettle to its former site which later they named Binungtuan and was made a visita of the pueblo of Laoáng until its separation in 1863.

Pambujan had a very small number of inhabitants until the year 1850, which received a great increase, through the initiative of Fray Sebastian Moraleda o de Almonacid, OFM, parish priest of Laoáng made an excursion to the mountains and converted more than seven hundred people and added them to the said pueblo.

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙪𝙧𝙘𝙝 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙖𝙢𝙗𝙪𝙟𝙖𝙣 The church of Pambujan under the patronage of al Precursor San Juan Bautista was built by the Franciscan missionaries.

In 1872, Fray Francisco Crespo, OFM, appointed parish priest that year, began the construction of a masonry church (Iglesia de mampostería).

Alfredo dela Cruz (1963-1967), faced the clamor of the inhabitants of Lao-angan and Suba for the conversion of these barrios into towns independent from Pambujan by seeking the assistance of Congressman Eladio T. Balite, then representative of the lone district of Samar.

The most notable of these physical features is Mount Cagbigajo, which once served as an observation and listening post of the Allied Intelligence Bureau Operative (1934–44) during World War II.